Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-19
FIXING FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Interesting Meeting of the Repub-
ncan State Central Committee.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
a Strong Effort to BE Made to Secure
Its Meeting in Omaha Next
Year-Othcr Business
Transacted.
Republican Central Committee.

Republican Central Committee.
The republican state central commit
| tee held an interesting session at the
Millard hotel last evening, with Hon.
George d. Meiklejohn in the chair. Mr..
Wheaton moved that Mr.. G. L. Hill cast
the proxy Of w. A. Dilworth, of the
| Hastings district, in order to have q
| quorum. A motion was made that it be
amended by using the name of Mr..
Laird instead. The motion rs amended
| was carried after considerable debate as
| to the advisability of member outside
of district casting proxy for MEM
| Der from that district. On motion OF
| Mr.. Hill ten members will hereafter
| constitute quorum.
Mr.. Simmons moved that hereafter no
district shall be represented by proxy
| through a member of another district,
and the motion was carried.
Mr.. Hill presented the following
resolution:
Whereas, The republican state convention,
| held in Lincoln October 5, 1887, passed
| resolution asking the republican national
committee to select Omaha as the place to
hold the convention of 1883; and
Whereas, Omaha is situated nearest the
goOgrapnlCal center OF Unc Unlteu states,
easy of access to all parts of the nation, pos
| sessing the accommodations, enterprise and
| the enthusiasm to entertain the great repub-
| lican party successfully and satisfactorily;
therefore, be it
| Resolved, That a committee consisting of
| the chairman, secretary, treasurer and seven
| members of the committee, be appointed as
| committee to take the necessary steps look
| ing towards securing the convention in the
| city of Omaha, and if advisable, meet the
| committee at its meeting next spring, and
| that Hon. Church Howe of the national
| committee, be requested to use his influence
and all honorable means to aid the commit
tee in its work and object.
Mr.. Slaughter moved that after the
word treasurer in the resolution there
| be inserted the words "Senators Pad
| dock and Manderson, Representatives
| Laird and Dorsey, and two citizens from
| Omaha and one from Lincoln"
The resolution and amendment were
| both unanimously carried.
In response to call from Mr.. w. G..
| Whitmore, Hon. James Laird, the rep
resentative of the Second district, was
called upon to say a few words concern
ing securing the national convention.
| Mr.. Laird said that while he was
| friendly to such an undertaking, he re-
allied that it was great one. He said
there was great prejudice in the east
against the wild and woolly west;'
that they would look askance at our OBJ
| security and lack of powers OF entertain
ment. He doubted whether we could
handle the crowd of delegates and al
ternates, numbering 1900, beside the
army of followers. Our state convention
alone packs our hotels. Besides the OK
| pense of securing the convention would
| be large. He did not wish to discourage
| the undertaking, but wished to show the
magnitude of the proposed work.
| This brought out a number of spirited
| replies in favor of making every effort
| to secure the convention.
| Mr.. Hall said that if Omaha fails in
this undertaking it will be the first time
that she has gone at anything and failed
| to swallow it.
| Mr.. ID. II. Wheeler said he believed
| that Omaha could entertain all the
| delegates and visitors of the convention.
| He referred to the immense number of
| people easily entertained in Omaha dur
ing the fair and reunion. He thought
it would be a good thing to lot the east
! meet the 'rowdy west" at home. He
| also thought that $4,000 or $500
would be easily raised by the people for
| the purpose of securing the convention.
| Omaha could entertain more people
| than either Baltimore or st. Louis,
| where conventions have been held.
|, Mr.. r. G. Brunuer said that in an
| other season the Paxton hotel alone
could accommodate the greater portion
of the delegates, as the capacity of
| that hotel is to be doubled. He
said that if Omaha did not have hall
large enough to hold national conven-
tion in she would build one. AS to the
hangers-on who swarm about a conven-
ton, he thought that not more than 80
per cent of the usual number would be
| present at Omaha.
The chairman next suggested the
advisability of following the example of
| Omaha throughout the state by organ
| izing republican clubs, whereupon Mr..
Slaughter offered the following resOlu-
| tions.
Resolved, That we recommend the organ
ization of republican clubs in every precinct
| in this state.
Resolved, That committee of three be
appointed to prepare uniform articles for the
organization of republican clubs, and that the
same be printed and furnished to the chair
man of each county represented in the central
committee on application.
Resolved, That the chairman of each
county central committee be requested to
forward to the republican state central com
mittee the address of each club organized.
This was adopted, and was followed by
general discussion as to what consti-
tutes eligibility to membership in n re-
| publican club An executive committee
consisting of Messrs. G.. G. Bowman,
| w. G.. WhitmOrc, Thomas Darnell, G.
| l.. Hall and j. III. Sterling, in con juno
tion with the president and secretary,
were appointed to prepare set of rules
| and regulations concerning the govern
ment of primaries, and will submit them
at the next meeting.